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I’ve never used discord but there’s a couple communities I want to browse that apparently only are in discord. The official app seems like shit privacy wise so I don’t want to install it. What alternatives are recommended? Or some work around?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

second this, is the best, only way I use discord.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Couldn't agree more 😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They have a web ui that works well enough with no need to install anything.

I only know of one other discord client and it’s just a wrapper around the official one anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah. Use website in Firefox and turn up all the tracking blockers + use Ublock + noscript. Firefox on Android let's you install websites as self contained "apps" on your home screen too, where it runs in full-screen like a native app (which is all the native app does in the first place, it's a lazy ass electron container).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Damn, I knew it's not really native (the original one)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

BetterDiscord is one, and it supports plugins. Note tho: Discord has some sloppy inconsistent management so they might just randomly decide to ban that client one day

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Officially, all third-party clients are already against ToS. Only bot accounts are officially allowed to use the public API.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Officially they're also acting according to their own tos, law and are transparent. But in reality, they don't, don't properly and don't.

Hence why I alluded to their mess of management rather than their tos. It's there mostly for appearance and decoration.